That's precisely why it bothers so many people. :)
A little personal revelation: On the fourth re-watch of the episode I realized that I hated it so much precisely because I had spent 13 episodes watching Donna evolve and change and grow into something awesome at a time in my own life when I felt trapped by circumstance and situation myself. In a way her fictional journey carried me along out of my anxieties and got me "out of my own head" for a bit. Then to see the character reduced to what she was at the beginning with no hope of being the awesome she had been again was kind of a psychological sucker-punch that said "you can spend all this time and energy growing and becoming something new and it can be ripped away in an instant."
So rightly so, a lot of the people who are the most vocal and upset about Donna's resolution could probably use a little insight into *WHY* they feel the way they do. I guarantee it has a lot more to do with whom they are than with who RTD is!
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A little personal revelation: On the fourth re-watch of the episode I realized that I hated it so much precisely because I had spent 13 episodes watching Donna evolve and change and grow into something awesome at a time in my own life when I felt trapped by circumstance and situation myself. In a way her fictional journey carried me along out of my anxieties and got me "out of my own head" for a bit. Then to see the character reduced to what she was at the beginning with no hope of being the awesome she had been again was kind of a psychological sucker-punch that said "you can spend all this time and energy growing and becoming something new and it can be ripped away in an instant."
So rightly so, a lot of the people who are the most vocal and upset about Donna's resolution could probably use a little insight into *WHY* they feel the way they do. I guarantee it has a lot more to do with whom they are than with who RTD is!